National Catholic Reporter: Angelo Sodanohttps://www.ncronline.org/rss.xml/2761
enMacielís Son to Sue Legionaries: Details abuse, Tells NCR 'Dad promised $6 million'https://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican/maciel-s-son-sue-legionaries-details-abuse-tells-ncr-dad-promised-6-million
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<p>Born in Mexico in 1980, Raul Gonzalez is a sturdy six-foot-one, with dark, close-cropped hair. He has a fair command of English, but faltered occasionally, searching for words, and at one point broke down and wept in describing the sexual abuse he endured, in childhood and adolescence, by his father, the late Marcial Maciel Degollado, founder of an international religious order, the Legionaries of Christ.</p>
<p>Raul Gonzalez gave his account in a May 7 interview with <em>NCR</em>. A lawsuit scheduled to be filed today in Connecticut against the Legion of Christ alleges that the order facilitated Maciel's abuse of his son, adding a new chapter in a saga of deception and depravity, two years after the death of Maciel, who for decades wielded enormous influence in Vatican circles as a favorite of the late Pope John Paul II.</p>
<p><font color="#800000"><strong>BREAKING NEWS: Maciel <a href="http://ncronline.org/news/vatican/lawsuit-filed-against-legionaries-christ">suit filed </a>in New Haven, Conn. June 21. </strong></font><br />
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